Privacy Policy
This privacy policy explains how Samachar Digital Ventures collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our site, which includes our online platform and services like news production, online interviews, blog content, digital publishing, media consultation, and podcast production.
Information We Collect
We collect information to provide and improve our services. The types of personal information we collect may include:
* Information you provide directly to us: This includes information you submit when you interact with our services, such as signing up for newsletters, leaving comments, participating in forums, or contacting us. This might include identifying information you choose to provide.
* Information collected automatically: When you visit our site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of visits. This is often collected through cookies and similar technologies.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
* To provide and operate our services: This includes displaying content, managing user accounts, and enabling participation in interactive features.
* To improve and personalize our services: Understanding how you use our site helps us enhance content, features, and user experience.
* To communicate with you: This may involve responding to your inquiries, sending service updates, or delivering newsletters if you have subscribed.
* For analytics and research: We analyze usage patterns to understand trends and measure the effectiveness of our content and services.
* To ensure the security and integrity of our services: This includes detecting and preventing fraudulent or malicious activity.
* To comply with legal obligations: We may use your information as required by law or legal process.
Legal Basis for Processing (Relevant for GDPR)
Our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information depends on the specific context in which we collect it. We will typically collect personal information from you where the processing is:
* Necessary to perform a contract with you (e.g., providing a service you requested).
* In our legitimate interests (and not overridden by your data protection interests), such as improving our services or preventing fraud.
* Based on your consent (which you can withdraw at any time).
* Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal information to third parties. However, we may share your information with:
* Service providers: Third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, data analysis, and email delivery. They access and use your information only as necessary to perform their functions and are bound by appropriate confidentiality agreements.
* Business transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
* Legal requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
* With your consent: We may share your information for any other purpose with your express consent.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When your personal information is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
* The right to access: Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
* The right to rectification: Request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
* The right to erasure: Request that we delete your personal information under certain conditions.
* The right to restrict processing: Request that we restrict the processing of your personal information under certain conditions.
* The right to object to processing: Object to our processing of your personal information under certain conditions.
* The right to data portability: Request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
* The right to withdraw consent: Withdraw your consent where we rely on it for processing your personal information.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. They are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. We also use other tracking technologies like beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
International Data Transfers
Your information, including personal information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction. By using our service, you understand and agree to this transfer.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at our physical address:
Samachar Digital Ventures
403, Sigma Tower, Lower Parel,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400013,
India